Author: CBD

Amateur athletics has been a joke for a very long time. The Olympics, once an important cultural and athletic event, has morphed into a marketing miasma filled with professional athletes in a dizzying variety of sports and pseudo-sports. They began to allow professionals in the 1980s, and every four years the Olympics has become less…

“Palestine” as an issue for the Muslim world was created in 1964 by Yassir Arafat and the KGB. The Palestinian people do not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity… Only for political and tactical reasons do we…

There’s a reason it’s called a “free” market. People cooperate…freely. Their industry grows economies, which gives us more wealth, thus free time. Specialization takes advantage of our infinite variety of skills, which maximizes the talents of everyone. And all of this drives innovation, which drives more wealth generation! It’s a marvelous system, and can only…

Let’s start with the obvious: any law that restricts our God-given, natural right to self defense and our ability to combat tyranny needs to be very carefully examined before it is enacted. As the saying goes, “The road to hell is paved with gun-control laws.” The 2nd Amendment to the United States Constitution is clear:…

Lisa Cook is a leftist hack who espouses political positions that are antithetical to the political philosophy on which our country is based. That her nomination got out of committee, much less confirmed, is a testament to how broken the United States Senate truly is. How could they confirm someone for a supposedly non-partisan position…

Winsome Earle-Sears is the current Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, and is the Republican candidate for Governor in the 2025 election. She is an impressively normal woman, although she is a Marine, so that gets her some extra points! She raised a family, wrote a book, ran for office, served her state honorably, and is in…

It is a very interesting Constitutional question; what are the limits of federal control over state behavior. And as much as I want the sanctuary states (and cities) to be crushed by the federal leviathan, if the boot were on the other foot, for instance a state’s refusal to abide by the NFA, I would…

Pax Americana has been so thoroughly discredited that I am amazed that there are presumably sentient humans who still believe that we can be the world’s policeman without any downsides. We carried NATO for its entire existence, and gave the Euro-trash a perfect excuse to spend their money on welfare rather than defense. So the…

India buys lots of Russian oil, and Russia uses that income to fund its war in Ukraine. They now buy about 1,750,000 barrels/day (up sharply since the Ukraine war began), and that is a lot of income for Russia, even assuming a discount and falling oil prices. Supposedly they resell some of it and profit…

In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) is an amazing technological feat, one that has brought the joy of parenthood to many people who could not otherwise become parents. IVF and the related techniques have revolutionized fertilization, and has driven basic and applied research to new heights. It has also demanded an examination of the morality and philosophy…